Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 14 Food Ration

The eldest uncle’s plan to marry his daughter has been temporarily suspended. At least if he has any other plans, he will have to wait until he returns from his brother-in-law’s house.

Bringing stools and bowls and chopsticks to eat is a common thing in rural areas in this era. In the city, some wealthy families only pay attention to the saying of thirty-six legs. That’s one table and eight stools.

Ordinary homes, especially in rural areas, really don’t have many tables, chairs and benches at this time. Not to mention the guests, many families have too many people in their homes to have enough tables.

Asking to bring stools means that the main thing is basically for people to sit on them. There are several children in my aunt’s family, so it is impossible to bring stools to everyone. Just bring one or two at most, and others can stand or squat while eating.

As for my sister-in-law Luo Hong’s family, life is slightly better than that of my eldest sister-in-law’s family. Because she is the eldest son in the family and has parents to help her. But every family has its own sutras that are difficult to recite, and the so-called good is also relative. My uncle’s parents had brothers and sisters, and so did my uncle himself.

If there is food at home, at most it will depend on itself. But just like the Luo Cheng family, the rations for this autumn haven’t come yet, and they are discussing whether to help others when the time comes.

Because I earn a lot of centimeters, I can barely survive from starvation. But to help, during the Chinese New Year, I can only drink water. If you want to eat a bowl of dry rice during the Chinese New Year, that is a luxury.

And when I say my sister-in-law’s family is better than my aunt-in-law’s, that also means that after the food is distributed, there is not much difference between my sister-in-law’s family and my eldest sister-in-law’s family during this period. At most, there are more sweet potatoes, and I drink a thinner, thicker drink every day. .

When Luo Bing arrived at his sister-in-law’s house, she had already gone out to work. She could no longer grow food, but she could still grow other things in the land. My sister-in-law Luo Hong is at home, mainly because the children at home are young. My sister-in-law has three children, two girls and one boy. One person needs to be left at home to take care of him.

After Luo Bing informed his sister-in-law, he didn’t drink the water. Instead, he got half a piece of white radish, gnawed it and went back.

Luo Cheng was not idle after having breakfast at home. There was not much water in the water tank at home. Because of the drought, water cannot be drawn from wells in some parts of the town. As for those that can produce water, the water is relatively muddy. After it is beaten out, it is best to leave it for a while to filter out some soil and the like on the bottom layer, and then pour the water into the tank.

Fortunately, it needs to be filtered before pouring into the tank, otherwise Luo Cheng’s physical fitness will be exposed again. There is a public bucket tied with a rope at the well, neither big nor small. When everyone comes to fetch water, they just need to bring their own wooden buckets, and there is no need to bring a rope to fetch water. Of course, not every wellhead has such a public one, and in some places you still have to bring your own rope. It’s just that they don’t need it where Luo Cheng and the others go to fetch water.

Without plastic buckets, a wooden bucket would weigh a lot. Luo Cheng, his sister and his father all went there. Because there were so many people, they chose to pick a barrel between them to save energy.

In the past, one person would come back with a pole and two buckets of water. It’s definitely hard work, but people these days don’t think it’s a big deal.

Luo Cheng and Luo Xiaoyu picked a bucket, and his father and Luo Shishi picked a bucket together. In this way, Luo Cheng felt tired after getting the water back, but Luo Xiaoyu and Luo Shishi acted like nothing happened. Luo Cheng could only pretend that he could do it.

This means filtering the water, letting it sit for a while and then pouring it into the tank. Otherwise, their father, Rowan, would definitely take them to fetch water again.

But grandma said, how can I let my eldest grandson do this job? In the future, my eldest grandson will have to work and eat commercial food. This job has always been done by the little grandson Luo Bing. With these two buckets of water, at least he can handle it for now. When Luo Bing comes back and buys food, he can just let him carry water.

Hearing his grandma’s words, Luo Cheng sighed inwardly.

“They are both grandsons. Luo Cheng is treated as a grandson, but Luo Bing is really used as a grandson.”

However, grandma was not completely partial. She left two pancakes for Luo Bing, and the others only ate one. The two sisters were also able to take advantage of Luo Cheng. He was unwilling to eat the cake he took at first, so they each ate one and a half pieces of cake.

And when it comes to Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here. Luo Bing was also very excited thinking about going to buy food at home today. When he went to pass his uncle and aunt, he didn’t waste much time on the way.

The water in the bucket was left for about ten minutes before being poured into the water tank, and Luo Bing just came back.

“Here, your eldest brother bought this. Eat it. You will have the strength to resist food later.”

As soon as Luo Bing came back, his father threw two pancakes to him. This kid is the best in the family, the best at eating, and the strongest.

But in this day and age, I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a curse. It’s good to have strength, but eating too much also means you’ll get hungry easily. In years of famine, it’s not easy to make ends meet.

“Dad, brother, have you eaten?”

“I’ve eaten all. I left it just for you. I’m just waiting for you to come back to eat and buy food.”

“Let’s go then. You can eat this pie while walking.”

Luo Bing said happily while taking a big bite of the big cake. It was really delicious to eat. In fact, his father, Luo Wen, looked delicious when he ate the flatbread. Luo Chengdu wondered if he had opened the flatbread in the wrong way when he ate it in the morning. Why was it so hard for him to eat it?

Luo Bing took one gulp of the half-a-kilo pancake and lost half of it, and he swallowed it without chewing a few mouthfuls. If this were to happen in future generations, there would definitely be traffic if we were to do mukbang.

I brought a few bags with me because there are many types of food. To be honest, they have never used national food stamps to buy food. Even if it is local food stamps, farmers generally do not have these things, because they generally have no way to obtain food stamps and the like.

However, although I have never used local food stamps, I have heard of them. Local food stamps are divided into coarse grains and fine grains. Urban residents, that is, those who eat commercial grains, all have grain stamps. There is a quota every month. You can buy food directly with the food book, or you can use the food book to get food stamps.

The number of people in the city is not very large, and it is related to many factors. Those who work in heavy industrial units will also be given larger rations, and some units will receive ration subsidies. Some leaders will naturally have higher quotas than ordinary people, but even if there is a difference, it will not be much different.

Due to famine in the past two years, rations in cities have basically been adjusted down. There are standards for men and women, students, and children, and there are quantitative standards.

But even for people in the city, even if there is a ration, it may not be enough to eat. Some families with children and elderly people have to rely entirely on their rations to get enough food. The ration is only about thirty kilograms per person.

In this age without oil and water, let alone one pound of food per day, even if it is one pound per meal, those who can eat will not be full.

Therefore, the ration is generally based on fine grains, and one kilogram of fine grains can buy three kilograms of coarse grains. However, coarse and fine grains are also divided. You don’t just have to buy all coarse grains or all fine grains if you have a quota.